Search for faculty members
Tangseefa, Decha
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Associate Professor
list
Last Updated :2025/05/02
Basic Information
Faculty
Academic Degree
Profile
Profile
Although originally trained in political science and philosophy, I have been situating my research since 2000 at the intertwining relations of four notions: violence, difference, marginality, and temporality. I have thus employed various transdisciplinary approaches, blurring the genres of political science, philosophy, anthropology, and history. My research fields lie at the nexus between migration studies and border studies, focusing especially on the Thai-Myanmar borderlands. It is the border region to where most of my publications on the following issues have devoted: death & atrocity; refugee; music & youth; ethnicity; marginal migrant workers; “cultural fluency”; community engagement; malaria elimination; and special economic zone. Moreover, I have also been working with some civil society organizations along the borderlands since 2008 – starting with the Mae Tao Clinic’s network and, in 2012, with the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU). From 2003 to 2018, I was teaching political science at Thammasat University, Bangkok. Moreover, during 2008-2011, I was simultaneouisly teaching in a college in a “refugee camp” along the borderlands.
Language of Instruction
ID,URL
J-Global ID
External link
Website(s) (URL(s))
researchmap URL
list
Last Updated :2025/05/02
Research
Research Topics, Overview of the research
Research Topics
a) Thai-Myanmar Borderlands; b) Migration; c) Border
Research Areas
Papers
- "An Introduction — Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity"Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Jun. 2024, Lead author
- A Journey of Animus?: Christianized Karens and Recollections of Karen-Burman AnimosityDecha TangseefaExploring Religio-cultural Pluralism in Southeast Asia: Intercommunion, Localization, Syncretisation and Conflict. Nabil Chang-Kuan Lin (Ed.). Tainan City, Taiwan: Center for Multi-cultural Studies, National Cheng Kung University., Jul. 2019, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- Past Present Danger (In Thai)Decha TangseefaBetween Puzzle and Faith: Chaiwat Satha-Anand and the Human Politics in the 21st Century. A festschrift for Prof. Chaiwat Satha-Anand. Janjira Sombatpoonsiri and Prajak Kongkirati (Eds.). Bangkok: Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University., Jun. 2019, Invited
- “Nine Dimensions”: A multidisciplinary approach for community engagement in a complex postwar border region as part of the targeted malaria elimination in Karen/Kayin State, MyanmarDecha Tangseefa; Krishna Monthathip; Naruemol Tuenpakdee; Andrea König; Ladda Kajeechiwa; May Myo Thwin; Suphak Nosten; Saw Win Tun; Kayin Ma; Ahmar Hashmi; Khin Maung Lwin; Phaik Yeong Cheah; Lorenz von Seidlein; Francois NostenWellcome Open Research, 21 Feb. 2019, Peer-reviewed
- Effect of generalised access to early diagnosis and treatment and targeted mass drug administration on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Eastern Myanmar: an observational study of a regional elimination programmeJordi Landier; Daniel M Parker; Aung Myint Thu; Khin Maung Lwin; Gilles Delmas; François H Nosten; Chiara Andolina; Ricardo Aguas; Saw Moe Ang; Ei Phyo Aung; Naw Baw Baw; Saw Aye Be; Saw B'Let; Hay Bluh; Craig A. Bonnington; Victor Chaumeau; Miasa Chirakiratinant; Win Cho Cho; Peter Christensen; Vincent Corbel; Nicholas PJ Day; Saw Hsa Dah; Gilles Delmas; Mehul Dhorda; Arjen M Dondorp; Jean Gaudart; Gornpan Gornsawun; Warat Haohankhunnatham; Saw Kyaw Hla; Saw Nay Hsel; Gay Nay Htoo; Saw Nay Htoo; Mallika Imwong; Saw John; Ladda Kajeechiwa; Lily Kereecharoen; Praphan Kittiphanakun; Keerati Kittitawee; Kamonchanok Konghahong; Saw Diamond Khin; Saw Win Kyaw; Jordi Landier; Clare Ling; Khin Maung Lwin; Khine Shwe War Lwin; Naw K' Yin Ma; Alexandra Marie; Cynthia Maung; Ed Marta; Myo Chit Minh; Olivo Miotto; Paw Khu Moo; Ku Ler Moo; Merry Moo; Naw Na Na; Mar Nay; François H. Nosten; Suphak Nosten; Slight Naw Nyo; Eh Kalu Shwe Oh; Phu Thit Oo; Tun Pyit Oo; Daniel M. Parker; Eh Shee Paw; Choochai Phumiya; Aung Pyae Phyo; Kasiha Pilaseng; Stéphane Proux; Santisuk Rakthinthong; Wannee Ritwongsakul; Kloloi Salathibuphha; Armon Santirad; Sunisa Sawasdichai; Lorenz von Seidlein; Paw Wah Shee; Paw Bway Shee; Decha Tangseefa; Aung Myint Thu; May Myo Thwin; Saw Win Tun; Chode Wanachaloemlep; Lisa J White; Nicholas J White; Jacher Wiladphaingern; Saw Nyunt Win; Nan Lin Yee; Daraporn YuwapanThe Lancet, May 2018, Peer-reviewed
- Community engagement for malaria elimination in contested areas of the Karen/Kayin State, Myanmar: A case study on the Malaria Elimination Task ForceAndrea König; Ladda Kajeechiwa; May Myo Thwin; Suphak Nosten; Saw Win Tun; Decha Tangseefa; François NostenWellcome Open Research, 06 Mar. 2018, Peer-reviewed
- Community engagement for the rapid elimination of malaria: The case of Kayin State, MyanmarLadda Kajeechiwa; May Myo Thwin; Suphak Nosten; Saw Win Tun; Daniel Parker; Lorenz von Seidlein; Decha Tangseefa; François Nosten; Phaik Yeong CheahWellcome Open Research, 28 Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed
- Border Economies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (Book Review)Decha TangseefaJournal of Borderlands Studies, 03 Jul. 2016, Invited
- "I Want to Stay Forever in You"Decha TangseefaMyanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes: Local Practices, Boundary-making and Figured Worlds. Su-Ann Oh (Ed.). Singapore: ISEAS., 2016, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- Illegality & Alterity: Preliminary Notes on SEZ, Civil Society, and the Thai-Burmese BorderlandDecha TangseefaJournal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Jul. 2015, Invited
- Learning, Longing and Lying: Youths’ Musical Voices in a ‘Temporary Shelter Area’ along the Thai-Burmese Border Zones (In Thai)Decha TangseefaGreater Mekong Subregion underneath an Economic Quadrangle. Yos Santasombat et al. Chiang Mai: Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge Research Center for Sustainable Development (BIRD)., Nov. 2013, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- Imperceptible Naked-lives: Constructing a Theoretical Space to Account for Non-statist SubjectivitiesDecha TangseefaInternational Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries and Excluded Bodies. Shampa Biswas and Sheila Nair (Eds.). New York: Routledge., 2010, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- Reading ‘Bureaucrat Manuals,’ Writing Cultural Space: The Thai State’s Cultural Discourses & the Thai-Malay In-between Spaces.Decha TangseefaImagined Land?: The State and Southern Violence in Thailand. Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Ed.). Tokyo: the Research Institute for Languages and Culture of Asia and Africa [ILCAA], Tokyo University of Foreign Studies., 2009, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- Reading ‘Bureaucrat Manuals,’ Writing Cultural Space: Thai State’s Cultural Discourse & the Thai- Malay In-between Spaces (In Thai)Decha TangseefaImagined Land?: The State and Southern Violence in Thailand. Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Ed.). Bangkok: Matichon Public Co., Ltd., Feb. 2008, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- ’Temporary Shelter Areas’ & Paradox of Perceptibility: Imperceptible Naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese Border ZonesDecha TangseefaBorderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge. Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr (Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press., 2007, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- Taking Flight in Condemned Grounds: Forcibly Displaced Karens and the Thai-Burmese In-Between SpacesDecha TangseefaAlternatives: Global, Local, Political, Oct. 2006, Peer-reviewed, Invited
Presentations
- Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward TransdisciplinarityThe 47th Southeast Asia Seminar--"Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?", 09 Dec. 2023, CSEAS & SMRU
- Fear, Flight, Confinement?: Humanitarian Crises along the Thai-Myanmar Border Region and BeyondDecha TangseefaBorder, Human, and State: Experiences of Humanitarian Assistance and Migration Management Policy of Turkey and Thailand (PSU, Pattani, Thailand; Royal Thai Embassy in Ankara, Turkey: Webniar), 24 Jun. 2021, Invited
- The Ground Is Shifting Below Our Feet: The ‘Light’ and ‘Dark’ along the Thai-Myanmar BorderlandsDecha TangseefaEconomic Growth, Ecology, and Equality: Learning from Vietnam: The 43nd Southeast Asia Seminar (Vietnam National University, Vietnam), 08 Nov. 2019
- The Ground Is Shifting Below Our Feet: The ‘Light’ and ‘Dark’ along the Thai-Myanmar BorderlandsDecha TangseefaCSEAS Colloquium, Kyoto University, 24 Oct. 2019
- Past, Present, DangerDecha TangseefaCAPE Workshop: Possibilities of Southeast Asian Philosophy II, Kyoto University, 29 Jul. 2019, Invited
- Light & Dark: The Changing Contours of the Thai-Myanmar BorderlandsDecha TangseefaUnderstanding of and Collaboration on Health, Education and Protection for populations in changing Thai- Burma Border context: 30th year Anniversary Border Symposium (Tak, Thailand), 20 Jun. 2019, Invited
- Thailand’s Democracy and the Conundrum of Transnational AlterityDecha TangseefaLook Back and Stare: The Thai Elections of 2019 (CSEAS, Kyoto University), 08 Apr. 2019, Invited
- Before Disaster Struck: Community Engagement in a Postwar Border Region as Part of the Targeted Malaria Elimination (TME) in Karen/Kayin State, MyanmarDecha TangseefaInternational Workshop on "Human Response to Disaster in Southeast Asia" (CSEAS, Kyoto University), 14 Jan. 2019, Invited
- “Nine Dimensions” & Happiness: Community Engagement in a Postwar Border Region as Part of the Targeted Malaria Elimination (TME) in Karen/Kayin State, MyanmarDecha TangseefaHealth and Rural Development based on the concept of Gross National Happiness: The 42nd Southeast Asia Seminar (Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan), 07 Dec. 2018
- Tensions in TransdisciplinarityThe 45th CSEAS’s Southeast Asia Seminar--"Engaging Transdisciplinarity: Variegated Trajectories in Southeast Asian Studies", 19 Feb. 2022, CSEAS
- Crisis, Challenge, Community: Epistemological Engagement & TransdisciplinarityCSEAS Workshop, 17 Feb. 2022, Invited
Books and Other Publications
- "Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity"EditorKyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Jun. 2024
- Light, Water and Rice Stalk: Cultural Fluency for Alterity (Second Revised Edition [In Thai])Decha Tangseefa, Single workศูนย์ข่าวสารสันติภาพ คณะรัฐศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์ : มูลนิธิเพื่อการศึกษาประชาธิปไตยและการพัฒนา โครงการจัดพิมพ์คบไฟ, Sep. 2020
- Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (Translation Into Thai)Johan Galtung; Decha Tangseefa (Trans.), Single translationโครงการจัดพิมพ์คบไฟ, มูลนิธิเพื่อการศึกษาประชาธิปไตยและการพัฒนา, Oct. 2007
- Precious Lessons from the Chan (Zen Schools) (Translation into Thai). Photchana Chandhara-santi (Ed.).Thomas Clearly (Trans. into English). Decha Tangseefa (Trans. into Thai), Single translationมูลนิธิโกมลคีมทอง, Mar. 2002
- Alternatives to World Disorder in 1990's. (Translation into Thai). Suwanna and Chaiwat Satha-Anand. (Eds.).Jan Oberg. Decha Tangseefa (Trans), Single translationศูนย์ข่าวสารสันติภาพ คณะรัฐศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์ : มูลนิธิเพื่อการศึกษาประชาธิปไตยและการพัฒนา; สถาบันชุมชนท้องถิ่นพัฒนา, Mar. 1993
list
Last Updated :2025/05/02
Education
Teaching subject(s)
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Political Science II-E2H939, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Political Science I-E2H938, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Intercultural Communication ll-E2H384, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Intercultural Communication I-E2H383, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024Intercultural Communication I-E2H383, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024Political Science II-E2H939, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024Political Science I-E2H938, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024Intercultural Communication ll-E2H384, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023Political Science II-E2H939, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023Political Science I-E2H938, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023Intercultural Communication ll-E2H384, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023Intercultural Communication I-E2H383, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020Intercultural Communication I-E2Spring, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020Intercultural Communication ll-E2Fall, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020Political Science I-E2Spring, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020Political Science II-E2Fall, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020Refugee StudiesFall, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科
- From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021Intercultural Communication I-E2Spring, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021Intercultural Communication ll-E2Fall, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021Political Science I-E2Spring, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021Political Science II-E2Fall, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022Intercultural Communication I-E2Spring, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022Intercultural Communication ll-E2Fall, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022Political Science I-E2Spring, 全学共通科目
- From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022Political Science II-E2Fall, 全学共通科目
Participation in PhD Defense
list
Last Updated :2025/05/02
Academic, Social Contribution
Academic Contribution
- CSEAS’s 47th SEA Seminar -- Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc., Supervision (editorial)Co-organizer (Chairperson), Tha Song Yang, Mae Ramat, Mae Sot, and Phop Phra of Tak Province, Thailand, From 07 Dec. 2023, To 14 Dec. 2023
- CSEAS’s 45th SEA Seminar (Webinar) -- Engaging Transdisciplinarity: Variegated Trajectories in Southeast Asian StudiesPlanning, management, etc., Panel moderator, Supervision (editorial)Co-organizer (Chairperson), From 18 Feb. 2022, To 19 Feb. 2022
- CSEAS’s 44th SEA Seminar (Webinar) -- The COVID-19 Pandemic in Japanese and Southeast Asian Perspective: Histories, States, Markets, Societies.Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, Supervision (editorial)Co-organizer (Chairperson), CSEAS, From 01 Mar. 2021, To 02 Mar. 2021
